--- title: On the following day the wedding was to take place in the King’s pal… — The Blue Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics description: On the following day the wedding was to take place in the King’s palace, and the elder brother was to drive to church with his bride, and the brother who had been with the giant with her sister. Who acts: wedding, brother. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (wedding, brother), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. **Parsed by Mova, not checked by a teacher.** This tree is Mova's own parse (the `en` model, on the CPU, when the site is built); it may be wrong. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = book:pg503:19:1 # text = On the following day the wedding was to take place in the King’s palace, and the elder brother was to drive to church with his bride, and the brother who had been with the giant with her sister. 1 On on ADP IN _ 4 case _ _ 2 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 4 det _ _ 3 following follow VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 4 amod _ _ 4 day day NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 obl _ _ 5 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 6 det _ _ 6 wedding wedding NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 nsubj _ _ 7 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 15 cop _ _ 8 to to PART TO _ 9 mark _ _ 9 take take VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 15 csubj _ _ 10 place place NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 obj _ _ 11 in in ADP IN _ 15 case _ _ 12 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 13 det _ _ 13 King King PROPN NNP Number=Sing 15 nmod:poss _ SpaceAfter=No 14 ’s 's PART POS _ 13 case _ _ 15 palace palace NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ SpaceAfter=No 16 , , PUNCT , _ 20 punct _ _ 17 and and CCONJ CC _ 20 cc _ _ 18 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 20 det _ _ 19 elder elder ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 20 amod _ _ 20 brother brother NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 conj _ _ 21 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 20 acl _ _ 22 to to PART TO _ 23 mark _ _ 23 drive drive VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 21 xcomp _ _ 24 to to ADP IN _ 25 case _ _ 25 church church NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 obl _ _ 26 with with ADP IN _ 28 case _ _ 27 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 28 nmod:poss _ _ 28 bride bride NOUN NN Number=Sing 25 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 29 , , PUNCT , _ 38 punct _ _ 30 and and CCONJ CC _ 38 cc _ _ 31 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 32 det _ _ 32 brother brother NOUN NN Number=Sing 38 nsubj _ _ 33 who who PRON WP PronType=Rel 38 nsubj _ _ 34 had have AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 38 aux _ _ 35 been be AUX VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 38 cop _ _ 36 with with ADP IN _ 38 case _ _ 37 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 38 det _ _ 38 giant giant NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 conj _ _ 39 with with ADP IN _ 41 case _ _ 40 her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 41 nmod:poss _ _ 41 sister sister NOUN NN Number=Sing 38 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 42 . . PUNCT . _ 15 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **follow** | gerund | | | | | | | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 2 | **take** | to-infinitive | | place | | | | | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent place=Theme | | 3 | **is** | past | the wedding | | | the King's palace and the elder brother and the giant | day | | tree rules | | 4 | **drive** | to-infinitive | the wedding *not said here* | | | church with King's bride | | | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent to church=Trajectory | | 5 | **is** | past · perfect | the brother | | | | | with the giant; with giant's sister | tree rules | One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree. **Text:** «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 503 (public domain in the USA). **Tree:** Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. **Frames:** Mova's frames reader (`prag`), the chapter read in order. - ← previous: [The Master-maid, part 2, 89](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg503/18/89/) - next →: [sentence 2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg503/19/2/) - ↑ back to [The Master-maid, part 3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg503/19/)